THE LORD’S DAY December 14, 2025

 

9:30    Bible Study Hour

 

 

 Morning  Worship, 10:45AM

 

 

Prelude

Welcome & Announcements

Hymn                                              Hark, the Herald Angels Sing

Hymn                                                                 The First Noel

Prayer

Hymn                                                 Go Tell It on the Mountain

Hymn                                         Angels from the Realms of Glory

 

Children, ages 4 to 10, are dismissed for Children’s Church

 

THE DESCENT AND EXALTATION OF GOD THE SON

Philippians 2:5—11

Message by Pastor Kevin Grant

 

Closing Hymn                                       Good Christian Men, Rejoice

 

 

 

Adult Bible Study , 5:00PM

 

GODLESS KINGDOMS AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD:

DANIEL’S VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS, part 2

Daniel 7

taught by Roy Flor

 

AWANA Club , 5:00PM—6:30PM

 

Our weekly Bible club for children age 2 through twelfth grade

 

 

If you would like to have your Christmas cards for regular attendees of Memphis Bible Church to be hand-delivered on the morning of December 21, please drop them off in the church office by December 17.

 

The Adult Christmas Party on December 20 will be a party food potluck.  Please sign up at www.perfectpotluck.com to indicate your plans to attend and what you plan to bring. The coordinator name is Henry and the password is Party.  In addition to your contribution to dinner, plan to bring a gift ($10-$15) for a fun gift exchange (one gift per participant).  Gifts should be appropriate for either gender; this is not a white elephant exchange.  We will enjoy fellowship around the tables, some group holiday games, and other Christmas activities.

 

COMING EVENTS        

Saturday, December 20, 5PM Adult Christmas Party

Sunday, December 21, 5PM  Candlelight Carols

Saturday, December 27, 11AMDoorKeepers Christmas Party

 

Candlelight Carols is next Sunday evening.  Make plans to attend this special evening of focusing on the true meaning of Christmas and fellowshipping with your church family.  The time of musical worship will be followed by a finger food fellowship.  Please sign the list in the lobby indicating what you will bring.

 

MISSIONS MOMENT with Creig and Sherry Marlowe, European Christian Mission

 

Thanks for your prayers for safety on our recent trip to the USA for Creig’s teaching at Zinzendorf School for Doctoral Study in Mill Valley, California, and then travel for participation in academic society meetings this year in Boston, home to famous events early in the colonial revolution against British rule.  We were reminded how Christians, even at that time, were divided over the celebration of Christmas, between churches and believers who thought such festivities were pagan and those who enjoyed the Christmas traditions based on Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem.  These academic meeting also, of course, highlight interpretive differences between Bible readers.  All this reminds us how much we as Christians (especially in this season) remain united in Christ as the divine Messiah, Savior, and hope of the world.

 

Back home we enjoyed having our two grandsons, Max and Charlie, along with Marc and Julia, with us over the Thanksgiving holiday.  Max was excited to help with the delivery of the boxes he had decorated and filled for the shoebox ministry.  Our boxes this year will be sent to Ukraine and Hungary.